Op di 01-06-2004, om 02:11 schreef Nathanael Nerode:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> >Please, try not to give such black-and-white responses. There's a world
> >of difference between "merging non-free right into main" and "ensuring a
> >driver, which requires non-free firmware to be loaded, works, instead of
> >just throwing the driver and the firmware entirely out of Debian, and
> >telling users that they're unlucky, and that they should've bought free
> >hardware, ha ha".
>
> Please come up with a meaningful difference between putting non-free
> peripheral software needed only for a few rare pieces of hardware (the actual
> case with the tg3 driver) into 'main', and putting any other piece of
> non-free software in 'main'.
I'm not suggesting keeping the non-free firmware in main indefinately.
I'm suggesting to make sure that
* the non-free firmware actually is available in the non-free
archive
* in a form such that it can be easily used
* and that the kernel package warns a user that their hardware
will stop working if they install the new package unless they
install this and that package from the non-free archive.
*before* throwing it out of main.
That's not just limited to the tg3 driver; that's how I'd want
everything to work.
> "Lost Trust" is a good title; I don't trust most Debian Developers to follow
> the Social Contract any more.
you forgot to apply
s/the Social Contract/my interpretation of &/
to the above sentence. Which is fair enough.
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